Fairfield Comm High School

Fairfield Comm High School is a low-enrollment secondary school in Fairfield, Illinois, part of Fairfield Comm H S Dist 225. The school caters to 444 students in grades 9 through 12. By comparison, Illinois's public schools average about 834 students each, so Fairfield Comm High School sits 47% smaller than that benchmark.

Fairfield Comm H S Dist 225 is the operating authority for Fairfield Comm High School, handling staffing, calendars, and reporting to the state department of education.

Looking at the student body, Fairfield Comm High School shows that nearly all students (93%) are White; the rest consists of 3% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.3:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.8:1 average. Around 38% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is below Wayne County's rate of about 46%.

After controlling for student poverty, Fairfield Comm High School is in the bottom 10% of Illinois public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 49.4%; Fairfield Comm High School posts 31.8%, -17.6 points below that line.

Zooming out to the county, Wayne County reports that the typical household earns roughly $55,521 per year, 16% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 12%. Across Wayne County's 12 public schools (combined enrollment of about 2,404 students), Fairfield Comm High School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Center Street Elem School, roughly 0.2 miles away. Within five miles, there are 4 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Fairfield Comm High School comes 9th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 49.5%.

Fairfield Comm High School operates from a small-town location.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Fairfield Comm High School has climbed 4%, going from 426 students in 2018 to 444 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 17.8:1 in 2018 to 15.3:1 today.

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